Comments on: Physician Heal Thyself – Enhanced Role for Physicians as Trusted Advisors http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/ The Next Generation of Health Care Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Richard Hill http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-683 Richard Hill Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:47:31 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-683 Good Luck! Good Luck!

]]> By: Scott Shreeve, MD http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-42 Scott Shreeve, MD Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:13:00 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-42 Anony(mouse), <br/><br/>I appreciate your comment. I am sorry you missed my point about health care "value" being something that people are more than happy to pay for. If consumerism is only about price - count me out to. <br/><br/>I believe consumerism is about choice (and informed decision making), and that the physicians who provide the most value (outcomes/price) will have benefit the most. I believe that physicians should be able to charge whatever the market will bear and whatever their personal reputations will support. Unfortunately, there is no health care market and there is no basis to judge a physician's reputation other than his interactions with patients. <br/><br/>You see, Dr. Anony(mouse), in the brave new world you WILL be subject to more competition - but it won't just be price - you will be competing for patients based on your quality scores, your outcomes results, and your ability to deliver improve health to your patients. It will all be transparently displayed for your consumer patients to see and to choose. <br/><br/>I hope you are the type of physician who can command a significant market premium on your services because you can deliver on all of the above.<br/><br/>And, oh by the way, I am not on your <b>"side"</b> - I will be kicking your rear to help you get to where you need to be in the new age of patient centric care. Best wishes. Anony(mouse),

I appreciate your comment. I am sorry you missed my point about health care “value” being something that people are more than happy to pay for. If consumerism is only about price – count me out to.

I believe consumerism is about choice (and informed decision making), and that the physicians who provide the most value (outcomes/price) will have benefit the most. I believe that physicians should be able to charge whatever the market will bear and whatever their personal reputations will support. Unfortunately, there is no health care market and there is no basis to judge a physician’s reputation other than his interactions with patients.

You see, Dr. Anony(mouse), in the brave new world you WILL be subject to more competition – but it won’t just be price – you will be competing for patients based on your quality scores, your outcomes results, and your ability to deliver improve health to your patients. It will all be transparently displayed for your consumer patients to see and to choose.

I hope you are the type of physician who can command a significant market premium on your services because you can deliver on all of the above.

And, oh by the way, I am not on your “side” – I will be kicking your rear to help you get to where you need to be in the new age of patient centric care. Best wishes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-41 Anonymous Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:56:00 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-41 Excuse me, why should I take advantage of consumerism and compete even more with my colleagues based on cheap prices? Reading that alone I assume that you are not in private practice and that you either do not practice medicine and / or do not do your own billing. I should submit to more competition? Work for less? Is that what you are saying? I should lower my prices to get more patients? Shold that really be the focus of consumerism in medicine, then it is just the same disastrous nonsense of the 80's in another color. Back then they promised to get us more patients if we just accepted to charge less per patient. And soon everybody wa spaying less and we had to work more and more for the same money.<br/>Sure, it is a business, and we have competition, but do you have to push it? On whose side are you?<br/>No, thank you, count me out. Excuse me, why should I take advantage of consumerism and compete even more with my colleagues based on cheap prices? Reading that alone I assume that you are not in private practice and that you either do not practice medicine and / or do not do your own billing. I should submit to more competition? Work for less? Is that what you are saying? I should lower my prices to get more patients? Shold that really be the focus of consumerism in medicine, then it is just the same disastrous nonsense of the 80’s in another color. Back then they promised to get us more patients if we just accepted to charge less per patient. And soon everybody wa spaying less and we had to work more and more for the same money.
Sure, it is a business, and we have competition, but do you have to push it? On whose side are you?
No, thank you, count me out.

]]> By: Vijay Goel, M.D. http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-23 Vijay Goel, M.D. Thu, 17 May 2007 03:21:00 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-23 Scott,<br/>Check out the benefits cited by MDVIP about their concierge doctor services:<br/><br/>Doctors give their cell phone and beeper to patients, wellness plans are developed, PHRs, more extensive physicals.<br/><br/>Link is: http://mdvip.com/NewCorpWebSite/Physicians/DoctorReasonsToSwitch.aspx Scott,
Check out the benefits cited by MDVIP about their concierge doctor services:

Doctors give their cell phone and beeper to patients, wellness plans are developed, PHRs, more extensive physicals.

Link is: http://mdvip.com/NewCorpWebSite/Physicians/DoctorReasonsToSwitch.aspx

]]> By: Scott Shreeve, MD http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-22 Scott Shreeve, MD Wed, 16 May 2007 04:40:00 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-22 Vijay - well said. Perhaps I am too far out on the curve and need to let things work themselves out. I guess the impatience has to do with the size of the opportunity and the scale of the potential impact of adopting consumerism in practice. <br/><br/>Please send me any examples of those early adopters and what they are doing to take full advantage of this movement. Vijay – well said. Perhaps I am too far out on the curve and need to let things work themselves out. I guess the impatience has to do with the size of the opportunity and the scale of the potential impact of adopting consumerism in practice.

Please send me any examples of those early adopters and what they are doing to take full advantage of this movement.

]]> By: Vijay Goel, M.D. http://blog.crossoverhealth.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-21 Vijay Goel, M.D. Wed, 16 May 2007 03:55:00 +0000 http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/physician-heal-thyself-enhanced-role-for-physicians-as-trusted-advisors/#comment-21 Scott,<br/>I share your frustration with getting the average physician to take advantage of consumerism in creating new business models for care. However, those models are forming with early adopters (cash pay practices, concierge medicine, cosmetic medicine) and as they gain scale and show profitability the average physician will change as well.<br/><br/>We only need the early adopters to start to see advantage. From there, the rest will move as they begin to envy their more successful colleagues. Scott,
I share your frustration with getting the average physician to take advantage of consumerism in creating new business models for care. However, those models are forming with early adopters (cash pay practices, concierge medicine, cosmetic medicine) and as they gain scale and show profitability the average physician will change as well.

We only need the early adopters to start to see advantage. From there, the rest will move as they begin to envy their more successful colleagues.

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